Updates

In the Spring of 2014, the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project at UCLA School of Law presents a series of speakers on Health and Human Rights issues. The speakers appeared at both Stanford University and University of California Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, CA—(Marketwire—Mar 14, 2012)—A UCLA law professor and six of his students have located and obtained video of the compound of Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges.

The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) celebrated its 20th Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party on February 26, 2012 at the newly re-designed West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles. Sir Elton John and David Furnish hosted the gala event and Neuro was proud to be one of the sponsors for the evening.

The 2013 Isa-beg Ishaković award for Patriotism was presented to Sanela Diana Jenkins: “We honor the global humanitarian Sanela Diana Jenkins with the award in the field of Patriotism—a person whose love of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina state deserves more than awards and whose humanism knows no bounds.”

The 2013 Computerworld Laureate Ceremony and Awards Gala recognized The International Criminal Court Forum, a Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project, naming it a Computerworld Laureate in the “World Good” category for its work advancing human rights and international criminal law through digital media.

Sanela Diana Jenkins was awarded a prize for one of the “World’s Top Three Justice Innovations of 2012” by The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL). Her project, the Human Rights & International Criminal Law Online Forum (ICCforum.com ), was praised as a way to facilitate communication between the legal community, the world community, and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In May 2014, celebrities, philanthropists, and conservationists joined forces to raise over $2 million dollars for the Elephant Crisis Fund. The Fund, a joint initiative of Save the Elephants and the Wildlife Conservation Network, will be used to save elephants from the current ivory poaching crisis by funding on-the-ground projects that stop poaching, trafficking, and demand for ivory.

A supporter of AIDS research, Diana Jenkins has organized and hosted many fund-raisers for the Elton John AIDS Foundation . On March 7, 2010, Diana Jenkins and Neuro , her line of active-lifestyle drinks, sponsored and co-chaired the Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 7, 2010. The event raised $3.7 million for AIDS research. In October 2009, Diana co-hosted with Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon the launch of Project PEP in support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

I support UCLA School of Law and founded the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project at UCLA School of Law. The Project was one of the sponsors and organizers of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) 2011 Midyear Meeting and Research Forum, held on November 3rd, 4th, and 5th at the UCLA School of Law. The meeting is for legal practitioners, scholars, judges, and others interested in international law.

In January through April 2011, the Program on Human Rights at Stanford University hosted the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Speaker Series, a weekly series featuring presentations by leading scholars of human rights. The series comprised 10 high profile international and domestic human rights scholars, lawyers and activists who have made significant contributions to international justice, women and children’s rights, environmental rights and indigenous rights.